Current Sermon Series
"The Journey Home"
Completing a journey that once took four months in just two days, throughout the month of June, we will trace the journey that the early settlers to our area took from Rising Fawn, GA, to found our church 150 years ago. During this series, we will explore the metaphors of “journey” and “home” as they relate to the development and living out of our lives of faith. We will talk about the dangers, problems, and promises that they faced then and that we face now…and how God leads/empowers us to face each with courage, faith, and integrity.
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"3 (More) Words To Live By" As the school and program years wind down, we want to revisit the theme of a WC sermon series from 2015. Taking the opportunities afforded by Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Senior Recognition Sunday, and the other special weekends of the month, we will take the month of May to address our growing need for simplicity. In a world that is prone to over-complicating things (including faith), we want to present messages that invite our congregation to dwell on the simple (but not easy) way of faith: the simple messages, the simple lessons, the simple decisions that affect real and deep change. As such, each week we will offer “Three Words” to stoke our congregants’ imaginations and to stir their souls towards a closer walk with the Lord. |
"UnAshamed" Following Easter’s glorious news of resurrection, we will spend the next four weeks (including the first weekend of May) exploring one of the most prevalent spiritual strongholds of our time: that of shame. We will be examining the role that shame has in deterring our growth in discipleship and address the cross’ power to demolish its strong hold on our lives – physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational. Throughout this series, our aim will be to provide practical, sensible counsel to those struggling with guilt, shame, and forgiveness issues. |
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"Holy Week 2021" |
"Perfectly Wounded" As we enter this season, we remember that Lent is the forty-day season of preparation, awareness, self-reflection, and self-evaluation that leads us into Easter. These days are marked with a more somber tone – a time tinged with the painful acknowledgement of our own sinfulness and mortality. It is a time when Christians confront and confess our neediness and wantonness – and prepare ourselves to receive the glorious news of Jesus’ resurrection. As always, our purpose is simple: to elicit a response. It is for us to be inspired, to be challenged, and to be changed. Our purpose, hope, and prayer is that all our hearts will be “strangely warmed” as we reflect upon the Bible’s truth and the Savior’s call. |
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"The Other Half of Church" In these weeks before the holy season of Lent, we will be exploring what it means for us to pursue a holistic faith – a path of discipleship that involves, both, the head and the heart, thinking and feeling. Historically, the Christian Church has offered myriad opportunities for “left-brain” faith (reasoning, logical, information), but we’ve lagged in our understanding of the need for “right-brain” experience – hesed, community, connection. As such, we’ve been expecting fruit to grow from ever-depleting soil. During this series, we will attempt to recast and reframe what “whole-headed”/ ”whole-hearted” (v. “half-brained) Christianity looks like – inviting our congregation to the next step (or the first step) towards a deepening life of faith…becoming more committed followers of the way of Jesus Christ. |
"Hindsight is 2020" After enduring a year like none other before, we’re all beginning 2021 with a passionate desire, with a driving hope that things will be different, that we can be different…but are we willing to do more than just hope and wish? The fulfilled life that we’re all looking for is the product of much more than just changing out the calendars on our walls and looking forward to the return of some semblance of normalcy. It’s about creating a new normal – it’s about letting the Spirit lead us to a deeper faithfulness and a more active faith. During these weeks, we will allow 2020 to hold an uncomfortable mirror to our faces: confronting us with some of the painful but necessary lessons that we should have learned…but may need to be reminded of. Looking through a theological lens, we will reflect up the journey of 2020 and let it inform the way we follow Jesus in 2021. |
